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Definition of power trip in US English:

power trip

noun

‘He says he hasn't got sick of acting - he shouldn't be; plum parts invariably have his name on them - and directing doesn't seem to be a power trip for him.’

‘I am not on a power trip, but I want to do something to improve the hurling situation in the county.’

‘Assuming confidentiality is just part of the power trip.’

‘Is it the power trip that ultimately drives him… excessively so?’

‘He charms the main character into trusting him, only to turn on a dime of deception for his own personal power trip.’

‘When I started to come off of my power trip, I said, ‘Ow.’’

‘Or maybe I'm just getting off on the whole narcissistic power trip.’

‘He stressed: ‘We are not control freaks and we are not on a power trip, but the case that we want to put to the Executive would undoubtedly be stronger if we were all united under one body.’’

‘They're kind of on a power trip and they just really don't want you there.’

‘But who in the West wants that - it's just the old colonialist-imperialist power trip, isn't it?’

‘This woman sounds like she's on a huge power trip at your expense, and you're both using the polite fiction that it's a introvert/extrovert thing to avoid dealing with it.’

‘If he needs to feel like a spring chicken again and you are on some power trip, you are most definitely writing to the wrong advice expert.’

‘This was not on the same level of power trip I received from a barman in Australia a year ago and another barman in Chatham, Cape Cod this week.’

‘Maybe it's altruism, maybe it's a power trip, but influencing other people feels good.’

‘To some, police work is a calling and a passion; to others, it's a power trip; but to many, it is just a job, a paycheck, a path toward retirement with a pension.’

‘Shaking slightly at the adrenaline rush pushing her onwards, she realized that she really wanted this job and wasn't going to back down from some too bold coffee jerk on a power trip because he owned said establishment.’

‘However, the biggest danger faced by companies that are under assault by change agents isn't either of those grouchiness symptoms; it's the power trip.’

‘I just believe that he was merely a man with a mission that later led to him being on a power trip.’

‘I knew I was called to ministry, not as a power trip, but as an agent of God's transforming love for this world (at least on my best days).’

‘In two weeks, we'll bring you the individuals who are on a perpetual power trip - the 100 biggest movers, shakers and decision-makers in sports.’